Selqet and Seth
	Homepage  Ammut and Amun  Anubis and Apis  Apophis and Aten  Atum and Bastet  Bes and Geb  Hapy and Hathor  Horus and Imhotep  Isis and Khepry  Khnum and Khonsu  Maat and Montu  Mut and Neith  Nekhbet and Nephthys  Nut and Osiris  Ptah and Re  Sekhmet and Sarapis  Selqet and Seth  Shu and Sobek  Taweret and Tefnut  Thoth and Wadjyt  Wepwawet and The Assessor Gods  Sons of Horus and Underworld Deities  Pharaoh		SELQET THE SCORPION-GODDESS SELQET IS NATURALLY A GUARDIAN DEITY AND IS ALSO IMPORTANT IN SPELLS TO CURE POISONOUS BITES ANS STINGS. Selget is often shown as a women with the scorpion ready to sting on her head. Sometimes the scorpion is shown without the lethal part of its poisonous tail, in case it should magically come to life. Her name in full is Selqethetet, which means 'She who lets the throat breathe'. This might refer to the hope of everyone that a scorpion sting will not threaten their life - or more ominously it might refer to the deep panic gasps for breath caused by a scorpion sting. The 'Priests of Selqet' were medico-magicians specializing in cures for scorpion and snake bites. SETH SETH IS AN EXCITING, UNPREDICTABLE GOD. HE HAS GREAT STRENGTH, BUT HE APPEARS IN A BAD LIGHT IN THE MYTH OF HIS BROTHER OSIRIS. Seth is shown as a mythical creature - a four-footed creature with a curved beak, two upright ears and a forked tail. Seth was venerated as a major god of royalty from the beginning of pharaonic civilization, five thousand years ago, to at least 1000 BC. In battle he gives his strength to Rameses the Great to overcome the Hittites. Seth is the arch-villan in the struggle to be ruler of Egypt. He murders OSIRIS and takes the throne from HORUS, leading to a long and sometimes violent power-struggle. Eventually even Seth's most powerful supporter, the sun-god, has to concede that HORUS is the winner. As a consolation prize Seth is given two Middle Eastern goddesses as wives. RE also adopts Seth to act as thunder in the sky and to travel with the sun-god through the underworld to use his strength against the serpent APOPHIS.